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Auburn Preview | 2024 Georgia Football
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Jim and John preview Georgia’s matchup with Auburn and answer listener questions.
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00:00:00
Speaker
I'm just going to forewarn you. If you if you win against me, I'm going to stuff the ballot.
Podcast Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:09
Speaker
Welcome to my got a podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I previewed Georgia's matchup with the Auburn Tigers. It's the Deep South's oldest rivalry, homecoming edition. We talked through what we're looking for in the game and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
00:00:24
Speaker
As always, remember to check out the newly redesigned MyGottaPodcast.com to see our latest merch. And you can follow us on social media at MyGottaPodcast. Finally, if you need help with your website or your online presence, head over to workingwebmedia.com slash dogs. Now let's join the conversation in progress.
Homecoming Game Discussion and Theme
00:00:46
Speaker
And we're back. And we're back for homecoming against Auburn. Kind of weird.
00:00:55
Speaker
Um, the, the, the, the deserted village, the deserted village comes to Athens. Uh, but you know what, even on homecoming, John, this is still true. Yeah.
00:01:47
Speaker
as a tradition had to open with that on this a tradition like Noah. that tradition like
00:01:54
Speaker
that's awesome Someone so on Twitter was like, it's the best week of the year. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so good. So good. Um, we get to play a noted rival East Alabama male college. Yeah. There we go. There we go. Uh, I forgot to ask, we've been sitting here talking in the podcast before the podcast. Did, do you have a bourbon tonight? Oh, I do. Okay. Uh, I'm going with, uh, the Eagle rare. Oh, you got to hold that back up. We got to show that at the same time. We got the double, the double, the double Eagle rare.
00:02:31
Speaker
Unplanned. Yeah. Unplanned. Unplanned. Excellent choice. like i wish i I wish I had Double Eagle Rare, if you have some. she Shoot us a message and we'll send you our address. and I would love to sample the Double Eagle Rare. Rare I've heard is pretty amazing. But the 10-year is pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. i'm a it is It is one of the bourbons one of the few bourbons that I can remember buying.
00:02:59
Speaker
when I wasn't really into bourbon, like at the time, but I would get bourbon for, you know, shutters at this point, like bourbon and Coke and stuff. And like Eagle rare would be like on the shelf and it'd be like this cool looking bottle with a bad looking Eagle on it. yeah And you'd be like, well,
00:03:17
Speaker
Let me, let me upgrade my maker's Mark or my Woodford and and get, get an Eagle rare. Right. And now, now you can barely find it again turn it. Yeah. I don't think I've, I don't think I've ever seen it in North Carolina. Um, I mean, I've bought it, you know, in Georgia. So this is, uh, this one may be when my dad gave me. So shout out for a dog, but yeah, not, not easy to come by and most things aren't easy to come by from the North Carolina ABC store. So.
00:03:47
Speaker
got You got to go down the road to the is the southern spirits. Yeah but like I don't want to do the whole raffle like no offense. They actually have some they've actually uh done a little better with some of those things if you if you follow them on the socials like they have like go there and and you can hunt for it and kind of stuff like they'll have like yeah hide and seek. I have seen those I have seen they do have some they do have some goofy games that they've done for their allocated bottles which there's a lot of goofy stuff that happens with allocated bottles but
00:04:19
Speaker
Yeah, it is what it is. Eagle rare is, a you know, when you can find it, it's, it's, it's pretty solid. Yeah. And you know, it it goes along with one of Auburn's 15 mascots. So if I felt like it was a made sense for cement. It does make sense. And I had a, I had a feeling that you might have, you might have it as well. So sold.
00:04:43
Speaker
Probably did that last year. I don't know. I didn't go. I didn't go and check, but probably, probably every year, every year since you got me into bourbon. So can, can confirm, can confirm. All right. Uh, I guess we can let, let's do the quick, uh, matchup rundown.
Georgia vs. Auburn Game Preview
00:04:58
Speaker
Um, so kickoff, uh, is on Saturday at three 30 Eastern at dually field at Sanford stadium. Uh, the dogs come into this game three and one.
00:05:08
Speaker
On the season one and one in the SEC Auburn is two and three, Owen two in the SEC. The dogs are ranked number five in both polls and Auburn is not ranked. um This game is on ABC. So we get the Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy and Molly McGrath crew calling this game. um And the official hashag official hashtag is hashtag AUB verse UGA.
00:05:37
Speaker
um The all-time series record according to us is 64, 56, and 8. I don't know what Auburn claims it is. I know it doesn't match, which proves that this week it is a rivalbel a rivalry game, ah the Deep South's oldest rivalry.
00:05:55
Speaker
Uh, let's see, last year the dogs won in Auburn 27 to 20. Um, so that was the, uh, very odd, weird start game. Um, like that none of us saw coming. And then we had Brock Bowers kind of do Brock Bowers things at the end and, uh, do what he did. And, it and I guess kind of saved the dogs last year and got us a great gift of Brock Bowers, uh, like stroking his chin. That was a good one.
00:06:23
Speaker
Yeah. The, uh, fortunately we don't have another road game, so right i don't I don't know that we can handle another road game. Yeah, seriously. Um, yeah. First time, uh, this will be the first home game I've attended. Uh, I wasn't able to make it, uh, for Tennessee tech. Um, so we'll be down there. Uh, yeah, I would take c Clemson, but, uh, first home game for, for the wood family, uh, should be whole memories coming to, right?
00:06:49
Speaker
Yeah. Well, yeah. Everyone who lives in the house. Uh, so yeah, el Ella will, we'll, we'll be down at school in Savannah, but yeah. Um, so Kim and I and, and Lily will be there and, uh, I believe my parents are going. I believe so. Well, we should all, I'll be out and about. So say, Hey, if, uh, if you see us around, very fun, very fun. Everyone will be asking me if I'm Fripp dog, son, you know, you know how things go. It's it's ah ah also a tradition. Yeah.
00:07:19
Speaker
zero um so the I will not be at the game. um We have a number of sports activities this weekend. Carter's first baseball tournament of the season is on Sunday.
00:07:34
Speaker
and then Camden has a homecoming cheer competition and she's going to be like presented and she' she's been paired up with a football player so they're going to do the whole homecoming like super cute cheerleading situation gotcha on Saturday morning and then Uh, Carter also has a flag football game. Um, so we will be doing, we will be doing kids sports all weekend. Okay. Okay. Been there. Been there. Uh, I guess at this point, everyone has retired the kids awards in our newverti house. Yeah. Yeah. and So, uh, but I remember, I remember.
00:08:12
Speaker
ah i got I've got a ways to go on my side. yeah
00:08:19
Speaker
um Let's see, the weather, high of 83, low of 65, like super low chance of rain. um So I guess maybe you watch that space a little bit, we'll continue to to monitor turn that as the week goes on. so hoping for a nice semi fall day. I'm not loving the 83, get a little yeah cool off maybe a little bit as the day goes on. so yeah But I do like the 330 kickoff. it's the That's the time that I like, so good with that. Let's see, I think we're we've previewed these guys so many times. I think and think you were saying you've exhausted JP's fun facts. ah Is that still accurate?
00:09:02
Speaker
Still accurate. um Nothing. Nothing earth shattering. Although I did, I did come across ah kind of a fun fact, which I didn't realize, but talking about not necessarily famous alumni, but famous people from Auburn, Alabama. Okay. Auburn, Auburn High School graduate Barack Obama. Did you know that?
00:09:23
Speaker
No, I did did not. know that I did not know that either. Yeah. president President Barack Obama was a graduate of Auburn High School. Interesting. Yeah. How have we never talked about that? How did have we never known that? Yeah, i don't I don't know. I mean, he would obviously didn't go to Auburn, but right, right. Right. The fact that he went to and graduate was a graduate of of Auburn High School is is kind of mind boggling to me because i I feel like that was new information for me.
00:09:48
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Well, we know why he didn't go to Auburn because I'm sorry. Bear with me on that tonight. I do. I guess maybe I could I could have dialed into the the pronunciation situation that came up on Twitter or was it in one of our one of our group chats? Like how the heck do they arrive at Jordan Hare Stadium pronunciation when it's very clearly spelled Jordan Hare?
00:10:12
Speaker
Uh, I feel like that's a ah decent segue into hasty's hard grid history. Um, but, uh, yeah, I don't know. I always have wondered the same thing. And I feel like some people lean into it a lot more than others. Um, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I guess weird pronunciation guide type thing. I blame the Alabama education system. Obviously, obviously. All right. Well, we do have hasty's hard grid history. So why don't we, uh, why don't we dive into that?
00:10:43
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Let's go.
00:11:11
Speaker
All right. Hasty's hard grade history is submitted by Jason Hasty. And we received word that he does approve of the theme theme music. One of these days, we're going to have to like, just do like an an intro for, for one of these, one of these games with our audio, like dubbed over the, over the actual, the actual audio. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Like fix the ABC game to sound like what it should sound like. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:11:38
Speaker
yeah Like, dear ABC, this is what it could be like. Yeah. Okay. It would be so much better. I mean, you get the the band, like it sounds like a college it sounds like football song. You get the drums, you get the band, none of this weird rock stuff. Also, I did appreciate ah Brett confirmed ah same song, different, but much worse arrangement after we talked about that last week. so Yeah. it's like It's like if John Tesh was given the assignment.
00:12:06
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Although John Tesh did make a pretty good, uh, didn't he make like the NBA? So it's not, it's not too much slander for John. Not too much slander, but all right. All right. Well, let's, let's jump in.
Historic Games and Rivalry Highlights
00:12:21
Speaker
Uh, so this, this is this week's, uh, hasty's hard grit history for Georgia versus Auburn. Um, most Georgia fans know that the 1950s were a tough time for the Bulldogs, not yet the DAWGs by the way.
00:12:35
Speaker
ah The reasons for our struggles during that decade are varied and in some ways beyond the scope of the athletics program. We should remember, though, that the 1950s saw great Georgia players take the field and great moments that deserve to be remembered. The 1958 Bulldogs only posted a 4-6 record but were very young, very talented, and had only played four games in San Fransadium.
00:12:58
Speaker
Despite the poor showing in 58, expectations were high that Wally Butts could challenge for an SEC Championship in 1959. Heading into the final three-game stretch of the season against Florida, Auburn, and Tech, the only blemish on Georgia's record was an inexplicable early season loss at South Carolina, then a member of the ACC in Columbia.
00:13:18
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Uh, JP, I know that like just made you shudder because, uh, you have bad memories of early season losses to South Carolina is probably probably near your birthday. Indeed.
00:13:31
Speaker
All right, the Bulldogs beat Florida in Jacksonville 21 to 10 on November 7th in a game that featured a 100 yard interception return for a touchdown by Georgia's Charlie Britt. ah the And if you're if you're on the YouTubes, ah we got some ah some visuals from here on out from from Jason.
00:13:48
Speaker
The Georgia Auburn game was the next Saturday, November 14th. If Georgia won, it would be SEC champion. Auburn was ranked number eight in the AP poll, but was ineligible for postseason play because they were on probation for recruiting violations. A common story for Auburn throughout the years. It's like, yeah, shocking.
00:14:06
Speaker
ah they've been They've been cheating since day one. That's right. That's right. Even back then these things were happening. Georgia was ranked number 12. The game, a sellout with 54,000 people packing Sanford Stadium was tight and Auburn held a 13 to 7 advantage going into the last minute of the fourth quarter.
00:14:24
Speaker
With only about 45 seconds on the clock, Fran Tarkington dropped back to pass. An Auburn defender jumped in front of Tarkington just before the throw, but Tarkington lofted the pass over the defender's outstretched arms. Bill Herron, an end, came down with the ball in front ah and the front corner of the east end zone, approximately in front of where the redcoat ban now sits.
00:14:44
Speaker
Durwood Pennington's PAT was good and Georgia won 14 to 13. The SEC Championship would be Georgia's fourth and the first since 1948. This is the part where I meant remind um everyone that we should be playing Auburn late in the in the season because this game has so many times decided the SEC Championship and i I don't like it being this early so get off my lawn. Okay, I will continue. Now, of course, this being a Georgia Auburn game, there are plenty of crossovers between the two teams.
00:15:13
Speaker
Earlier in the game, Georgia lineman Pat Dye recovered an Auburn fumble to end what could have been a scoring drive that would have put the game out of reach. Dye would, of course, go on to be to coach Auburn from 1981 through 1992. And then here's the the crossover to your earlier comment, John. ah Auburn was coached by Ralph Sugarton. Did I say that right?
00:15:37
Speaker
ralph should <unk>urned who from 1947 through 1950 had been one of Wally Butz's assistant coaches. ah Gene Larendo, one of Jordan's assistant coaches, lettered in football at Georgia in 1947, 1948, and 1949.
00:15:54
Speaker
Speaking of assistant coaches, another of Jordan's assistants ah that day was Joel Eaves, who was also Auburn's head basketball coach. Eaves would replace Wally Butts as Georgia's athletic director in November, 1963. In his first major act as athletic director, Eaves would hire a young Auburn assistant coach to take over Georgia's football team, Vince Dooley. In one of Dooley's first moves as head coach, he hired a fellow Auburn assistant who'd also been in the staff in 59, Erk Russell.
00:16:24
Speaker
So that's what we got. Thank you. I've heard it. I've heard of him heard it heard of those folks Yeah, the the again like this is this is a rivalry like there's so much cross pollination We've got so much going on between these schools. The history is so intertwined ah Yeah, I mean yeah the the the school wouldn't exist without Georgia basically because it was founded by people that were from Georgia and John J. Harper. I mean, that's a fun fact, I guess. There we go. um Yeah. Georgia founded the city of Auburn, Alabama, and the university. um So yeah, they they would not exist without ah Georgia frontiersmen, or planesmen, i guess I guess. I guess it would be planes. Good dogs. Yes. War Eagle, Tiger, planesmen, whatever.
00:17:13
Speaker
i think that They say the they're the Auburn Tigers who yell more Eagle or something like that. Yes, the official ah explanation they give is that the tiger, they are the Tigers. The tiger is their mascot. War war Eagle is their battle cry. That's what they say. I don't know what the planesman is. And I don't, I don't think I want to know. I just choose. I like to just make jokes about it. Yeah, totally fair.
00:17:38
Speaker
Jason, thank you for the submission. I enjoyed the back and forth with you about this one, as always. ah prece i have I have so many questions about the one that has the program. I don't know if you were on the YouTube, you could rewind and take a look at the the the program notes. But the the character that is designated as the Auburn player, number one, like the colors are all kind of messed up. But like, number two, he looks like Buddy the Elf. Yeah, he does.
00:18:07
Speaker
the the The fighting the fighting buddy buddy the elves. I had not looked at that closely. Yeah. Like what's what is going on on with that? I don't understand. but Clearly, it's a home ah homegrown Georgia made program, obviously. he's And he's like holding his back. Like, is he is he aching? What's what's going on? He's he's tired of getting his kicks. And is that is that the ref in the middle? Like, yeah yeah, I don't know. It's like the it's like the man with no face painting or whatever. He's got like a bowler hat on. I don't know what is going on.
00:18:37
Speaker
Not to mention that the Auburn buddy, the else character has like these shin pads that almost look like cricket pads. Sure. Sure. Sure. Shout out British Bulldog. Amazing.
00:18:49
Speaker
Um, well, if you find yourself in Athens, uh, you know, always welcome to stop by the Hargroet library. Uh, when they're open, um, they've got, they have, you know, they house the UGA athletic association archives. Um, and I think we've mentioned there's a, uh, Olympic, uh, Georgians, Georgia Bulldogs in the Olympics.
00:19:12
Speaker
or as Olympians. That's the fall exhibit going on right now, so be sure to go and ah check that out. All right, let's jump into news and notes. ah I only have two things that are pretty
Player Updates and Team Stats Overview
00:19:24
Speaker
quick. um The first is Kirby stated in his press conference that he has a lot of respect for Hugh Freese, so I know that's shocking to everyone.
00:19:33
Speaker
um Okay, so in Jordan Hall, not Jordan Hall, as far as I know, um but he did, Kirby did get questioned about three guys, Jordan Hall, Sokoby White, and London Humphries about their availability, and Kirby says that he is hopeful that all of them are able to play.
00:19:50
Speaker
So I don't know though. I don't know what that means because you we didn't even really get into this in the Alabama review. Like he gave like Michael had the hopeful and he played. So he's on to us, Jim. Yeah, he's he's been listening to the podcast. He's doing like reverse reverse reverse double reverse psychology or something now. I'm not sure. you um So yeah, so whatever.
00:20:13
Speaker
and this I guess we'll see. If I had to pick games for them to try to push someone to come back, I guess that this probably wouldn't be one of them. So if they are if they are on the bubble, I would say you know just let them know get fully out of the bubble. Yeah. All right. um Why don't we jump into the game?
00:20:32
Speaker
um So a couple of things, uh, just like team wide, um, Auburn actually is better. Uh, has more net yards per play than Georgia. Uh, so they're at 2.8 on the season. Georgia is at 2.04. Uh, and then the dogs turnover margin is now even after that four turnover game against Alabama. Um, but the Auburn, and this is the kind of like watch this space for this game. Uh, Auburn is minus 11.
00:21:03
Speaker
in the turnover ah margin. So interesting, definitely something to watch out for. Yeah, the yeah the the game, the game, and we're getting ahead a little bit, the game on paper looks fairly even statistically that sticks out. And then it kind of reminds me of the good senator, you know, for as one out used to always talk about um you so i talk about the regression to the mean.
00:21:32
Speaker
yeah yeah ah ip to the senator and All right, so for the Georgia offense, what we're looking for when Auburn has the ball. um So yeah, statistically, like, you know, the offense and defense lineup fairly evenly, like in total yards, Georgia is ranked 44th in the FBS in yards per game at 431 yards a game. Auburn's defense is ranked 50th in the SBS, ah giving up 329 yards a game. um the You know, I think the interesting thing, like as a Georgia fan, or as an old Georgia fan like me,
00:22:04
Speaker
Is we are 19th in the country and passing yards per game and 102nd rushing. Uh, so this is not your, uh, run the dang ball, uh, you know, style offense for sure. Um, it's definitely, it's definitely not the, uh, run, run the ball up the gut.
00:22:20
Speaker
Yeah. of the but sort three down yeah what What I do find interesting is like on the explosive plays. So Georgia is now 18th, um, in the explosiveness category, um, in, in FPS. Um, so that, that that's, that's interesting. Um, and we've started to see some of that explosiveness, uh, last week with some deep balls, Darian Smith, and then obviously the big one to, to Dylan Bell.
00:22:45
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, they they they started doing the things that we're we're looking for, and we'll we'll continue to look for that in this game. Yeah, ah so some notableable notable defenders from Auburn. and ah Their leading tackler is Jaron Thompson. He's a senior safety. 24 total tackles, one sack, one interception. Kaitlyn Lee leads Auburn in interceptions. He's a sophomore cornerback. um I guess he's tied for lead. He also has one pick. um He's got 14 total tackles as well. And then their sack leader is Jalen McLeod. ah He's a senior.
00:23:19
Speaker
Uh, and he has three sacks, uh, on the season with 24 total tackles, um, for our, our offense at this point. Um, yeah. I mean, we're, so we're still sitting here with Arian Smith as a leading receiver. You got Arian Smith and and love it. Um, ETN leading rusher with, with Nate Frazier. I find it interesting that Nate Frazier is the second leading rusher on this team still. And he didn't, he didn't see the field against Alabama. Um, so we'll, we'll see what goes don't know what goes on. Don't know what's going on there.
00:23:49
Speaker
Yeah. So what, uh, what are you looking for to see out of this, uh, out of this Georgia offense on Saturday? Uh, well, you know, I think that the biggest thing is going to be like, like we talked about in the Auburn game, and this is going to be get used to it as the season rolls through. Um, and as Carson, that goes, so is this team going to go? Yeah. That is, that is the, that is the battle cry for this Georgia offenses. Um,
00:24:16
Speaker
dear Dear wide receivers, um help help your brother out or dump a brother out. How's everyone afraid that like catch the dang ball and hold on to it. um Make the right readings, make the right calls, get into the right fits and the right sets. And Carson, as we've seen, like when they've they've got everything, you know, covered, he he can cook. yeah So that's what I'll be looking for is if they can do that for four quarters.
00:24:47
Speaker
Yeah, seriously. Yeah. I feel like we were back to, was it last year when we were just like, when are we going to have a fast start or was it two years ago? I remember like there was like one, one season where like every game I was like, well, we see the fast start. Can we do everything for four quarters? Uh, cause we certainly haven't seen that yet this year. So I'm with you. I feel like strategically, like we did the things last week, at least, you know, early, like we saw like we were taking shots down the field early. That's something I wanted to see. And we we saw that, but didn't get the consistent results.
00:25:14
Speaker
Yeah, I ah feel like that there has been some chatter. I can't remember if it was in the text or on Twitter or whatever, but um like this is like we've we've got to get Kirby Kirby's got to get to a ah point where he's comfortable with the fast starts. Yeah, I feel like I feel like this is just like who we are control the ball like old school Alabama teams like when he was at Alabama kind of stuff that's just what he's been that's what he's been bred on you know that's that's that's how that's his pedigree that's his uh you know he's he's basically taken the process and and installed it in Athens and in many ways so some of that has got to be on the head coach to be able to start quickly and and and keep the pedal to the metal kind of thing
00:26:00
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I think he kind of talked about that. Like the, you know, the first quarter is, is on them and as a coaching staff. Yeah, he did. The first quarter, the first quarter of Alabama. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did. He said, um, you know, they weren't ready to play and that's on him kind of deal.
00:26:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, when the offense comes out there and looks completely constipated, um that that's that's definitely on a portion of it is on, a big portion of it is on the coaching staff. I mean, there's definitely culpability on the execution side, and that's the part that I'll be looking forward to, is can we get execution? I think the biggest, like, I don't know if you're going to be showing Josh's stats, and if you haven't seen, I think he's going to post them. He usually does the the matchups where he has the,
00:26:43
Speaker
the the color coding ah on the offense and the defense. And yeah the one thing that when you look at those those numbers is Oscar Delp is the regression of Oscar Delp has been quite stark.
00:26:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And I don't, you know, I don't know if we do anything in this game to like try and get certain guys going or anything. I don't, I feel like they're probably not even, they're not really going to focus on it. And I mean, at this point, like, uh, I feel kind of like feed lost and lucky and let's get, let's throw vertically to Dominic Lovett, Arian Smith, Dylan Bell, and, um, and Anthony Evans, right? Like let's, let's include him in that group. Um, yeah.
00:27:23
Speaker
I would say that a big question has been like, what is the identity of this Georgia offense? like that's that I've seen that come up ah a lot. Like, what is what was their identity? And it seems ah you know it seems like to the untrained eye that you know hasn't hasn't been in the arena, so to speak. But um it feels like as a fan watching everything that we have players that have been producing out there. Anthony Evans, lost and lucky.
00:27:51
Speaker
Dylan Bell um and Arian Smith. Like, I ah feel like they've been trying to get the ball to Arian Smith very clearly. I mean, he was, yeah, I took the deep shot on him and if he catches it. It's big, big games. And those are the kind of things that we've been looking for. And, um but you look at all those playmakers and you just like,
00:28:12
Speaker
Why aren't, why aren't we, why aren't we feeding these guys the ball more often? Just doesn't make any sense to me. So you're not in practice. You don't see what's going on. I feel like in the case of Anthony Evans, like I saw there's, there was one play where there was one play that was in in review and, um,
00:28:27
Speaker
and the in the film review for Alabama like Anthony Evans appeared to be struggling with outside blocks so like if you can't block downfield that may be a reason why you don't see these guys more regularly or getting targets and that kind of stuff is because yeah the things that we don't see as fans in the in the in the practice and maybe they're they're fumbling the ball kind of stuff consistently but there's a reason that they're not on the field Because if they were like they if they were great in practice, they would probably be playing a lot more. But it is hard not to notice that some players just in the one that when those spotlights, you know, when those spotlights are on in the big stage moments, they just have it. Yes, that's that's been it clearly was one of those players because in practice, they didn't give him that's the starting nod. But when the when the lights were on and the pressure was up like
00:29:18
Speaker
he he figured out a way to win. um That's kind of how I feel like we need to start looking at these things as like less focus on what you're seeing day to day and more focus on what really matters in in the game. And that is production when production is lacking elsewhere.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Makes sense. um Yeah, I think we had a question about the identity too. I don't know. oh I'll hold until we hit the listener questions because I'm still not totally sure what our identity is. I'm gonna continue to mull over that until we get there. Okay, we can we can talk through it. um I guess and anything else? Or you want to move on to the defense? I mean, biggest thing for Georgia offense like running game man. Yeah, yeah.
00:30:02
Speaker
ETM has shown flashes, but he has also shown a knack for some boneheaded plays. like I've seen the analysis, like, you know like hey, this this play looks like it was designed for this, and we did that kind of thing. And execution in the running game. um He clearly has some, and he frankly like came pretty close to bust in some long runs,
00:30:28
Speaker
in the Alabama game. So I'm looking for him to come through and showcase that he can be a reliable weapon on the offense, not only from the running game, but also in the passing game too. Yeah, and I'd like to see, I'd like to see us, you know, impose our will up and down a field for the from the offense and kind of shut up a lot of people. And you know let's I would love for this game to be a confidence boosting game where we can get out and start showing people what we can really do is to kind of silence some of those critics and showcase, this is the Georgia team we're looking for and get some momentum from an offensive perspective going into some of the you know the the thick of the but schedule here.
00:31:15
Speaker
Yeah, agreed. And I will say to like Auburn, the only other thing I'll say about them is like, if you look, when you look at their numbers, like they're worse when you, uh, filter just down to power five opponents. So they, they've you run up the score and so they're lesser opponents. Um, so, uh, you know, obviously Georgia doesn't fall into that category. So, um, I like that there. Yeah. Uh, but no, I totally agree on the running game. I w I would love to see ETN breakout. Um, curious to see if what we see more of some of the other guys, you know, I think Alabama game kind of the being behind by so much kind of dictated whether it should or shouldn't have, uh, running the ball less just because of how far behind we were. Um, so hopeful hopefully we get to see some more of that run game. Cause I would, I mean that, cause that stuff helps like when there's the threat of the run, it opens up the past game and vice versa. So if we could have a little bit more, someone's a balance, I think that'll only help agreed and protect the dang football.
00:32:13
Speaker
Uh, we don't need to let these guys into the end of the game by, by doing that. So protect the ball. All right. Uh, let's talk about, uh, like our defense, their offense.
Auburn's Key Offensive Players and Special Teams
00:32:23
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Uh, so what we're looking at when Auburn has the ball. Um, so just notable, notable skilled players for Auburn, uh, Peyton Thorne quarterback, we saw him last year, uh, senior, um, he is 61 of one Oh two for 1038 yards, 10 touchdowns, six picks on the season. So he has thrown six interceptions.
00:32:43
Speaker
ah Jarquez Hunter is their leading rusher with 437 yards and two touchdowns. Damari Alston is their second leading rusher, 164 yards and two touchdowns. And their leading receiver, Keyandre Lambert-Smith, senior wide receiver, 17 catches for 415 and six touchdowns. And then Malcolm Simmons, a freshman wide receiver, 14 catches, 214 yards, two touchdowns.
00:33:07
Speaker
Um, so, you know, this is, can we, can, this is to me, it's kind of like, can we not do what we did against these guys last year defensively? Um, as I recall that game started out, like we had them kind of pinned back deep in their own end zone and we let Peyton Thorne bust some crazy run on us. Um, and you know, I mean, this is a Hugh Freeze team.
00:33:30
Speaker
offense is his thing. um you know I think we've played them enough times to to have a good plan there. But um again, to your point, you know, watching the film reviews this week, um folks have pointed out some things like we would eventually adjust to but didn't pick up on it initially. So we'd love to see a fast start from the defense as well this week. um I guess technically we had seen a fast start from the defense every game except for last week. um So maybe we get back to the the The rest of the season and kind of flush last week. Yeah. Pretty, pretty consistently have not been super concerned with the, the defense. Um, yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:34:10
Speaker
And you mentioned, you know, Peyton Thorn, like you're right. Like, hopefully they, they've got that dialed up in their heads from last year. Cause he has not been a threat all season long to run running. Yeah. Yeah. He's not, he's not been a ah significant impact with the exception of like their, you know, their very first game of the year. Um, but other than that, yeah, I don't expect that that that's going to be a feature of the offense based on what we're seeing here, but we know he has it in him.
00:34:38
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. and And this is where again, I think this is where i like the on paper, the statistics look fairly even between the Auburn offense and the Georgia defense. Um, but the thing there is turnovers. And I know Kirby talked about that in his Tuesday media availability. One thing he did say is that people aren't like, like, they're not like, uh, what did he say? He said something, if which maybe kind of doesn't really make sense, but it's like, they're not getting like stopped. Like they're getting these drives, but they're just turning the ball over.
00:35:08
Speaker
Um, but they're, they're not getting shut down. They're just turning it over. Uh, I think was what he said. So, but that's the thing right there. I mean, 15 giveaways already on the season. That's a lot. Uh, so, uh, we'd love to see that continue. Yeah, we'd love to see it. You'd love to see it guys. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I know, I guess that's really, and I don't have a whole lot of the, I don't know what else to say there. Um, defense for the most part, keep doing what you're doing. And like you said, uh, in our Alabama review, John, like.
00:35:38
Speaker
Jayla Milrai wasn't walking through that door, um, for any other teams this season. Um, so yeah, definitely feel, feel better from that, from that. Yeah, for sure. Uh, I guess the, they could always end up throwing a rope, a dope and putting in a new the new quarter, a different quarterback, you know, things start going south. So, you know, I guess that I would be, you know, be be prepared to put it because they played two quarterbacks this season. Um,
00:36:04
Speaker
they benchched They benched the other guy, but um Peyton Thorne seems to be the the go-to right now. Yeah, there was ah a switch and then a switch back. Hank, but if they switch again, it is hank Hank Brown is the is the the other kid that that was playing. um and he had one I know he had at least one start. um yeah he's He's got six touchdowns in three picks, so he started he started turning the ball over himself, and I think that's where they went back.
00:36:30
Speaker
He's less, less, less INTs than, uh, Mr. Thorne, but. Yeah. Yeah. But man, I mean, they're only, they're only two wins are over Alabama A and&M and New Mexico. And you know, we're talking their offense, they scored 73 points on Alabama A&M. So that's where a lot, a lot of those statistics are coming from. And, and 45, um, against New Mexico, where they only put up 14 against Cal and Arkansas. And then they just lost. They're coming off their 27 to 21 loss to Oklahoma.
00:37:00
Speaker
So, um, right yeah, we'll see. I like our, I like our odds, but again, like, there's just so many weird things about the stats here. I know that we're going to get to the score predictions and all that kind of stuff, but like, it was just like the math ain't math. And I agree. I agree. It's a turnover. its the turn All right, well, let's do a quick look at special teams. um You know, the the Brett Thorsen no puns return to streak came to an unceremonious ending with a negative four yard return. But as we said in the review, ah there has been zero puns with positive yardage return against Brett Thorsen still, ah you know, going back all the way through last season as well. So we've we've moved the goal post and that is our new statistically will track.
00:37:47
Speaker
um Other than that you can either sit your down or we're gonna push your back. Sorry Nice ah Let's see they looking at Auburn. So their place kicker is towns McGow Freshman kicker. He's two of five on field goals. He is perfect on extra points and And then they yeah they do have a an Australian punter, ah so they do have that going for them. So Oscar Chapman, senior punter, and he's got a 46.25 yard average there. And let's see, we did we did get into the kickoff return game last week. Finally had one of those happen for for Georgia's return, ah special teams as well. so
00:38:37
Speaker
You know, give my return, but had some good returns. So and Anthony Evans we've learned is the well, I guess he was always back there, but he returned a few last week. Right. and we We we basically were like, fine. you go You're going to you're going to bust our goose egg. We're going to we're going to bust ours. That's right. That's right. All right. That's what we got for the matchups on the three phases of the game for for Georgia and Auburn. You ready to hit the listener questions, JP?
00:39:03
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00:39:33
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Georgia's Strategy and Energy for Homecoming
00:39:46
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Right. First up in the listener questions, we've got, uh, Brett building with the building's bonus TM, TM, TM one, number one, our offense stinks in the first quarter. What will Kirby and Bobo do to correct that this week?
00:40:00
Speaker
I think we kind of talked a little bit about that. um right Yeah, I think it's just don't turn don't turn the ball over. Be consistent. mean it's l Honestly, it's execution. right like It's execution. like I actually liked what we were trying to do against Alabama. We had drop passes and and picks. so mean Honestly,
00:40:18
Speaker
What I was frustrated with was all the lateral stuff. So I would, what I want to see is if this is what we were wanting to do. And like what we were holding back was this vertical passing game for Alabama cats out of the bag. Now don't go back to the lateral stuff. That's like, you don't do anything lateral, but I want to see us getting the, you know, vertical passing game, keeping the ball downfield and keep it a modest run game. So that's it for me.
00:40:41
Speaker
I don't I don't know like I think that going lateral has its has its benefits right like I mean shoot we're we're we're arian smith uh understanding where you're supposed to go away from a touchdown I don't consider that one so much lateral because that was like a tunnel screen but I know what you mean I know you mean I mean Yeah. I'm talking about these, I'm just talking about the ones where it's like, I'm thinking the ones where it's like, there's like three receivers out to the left, the two guys block and you throw it behind the line of scrimmage, like that stuff. like but that's ah That was like the go-to stuff for Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkie. Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkie aren't walking through that door, JP. I know they aren't walking through that door, Jim, but I'm just saying, like
00:41:22
Speaker
like Anthony Evans. We haven't seen that throw for Lawson Lucky. like maybe Maybe one of those guys can step in and and and run it. like I mean, shoot, Colby Young, you know like big body guy. like this this These are the things that are kind of frustrating about League. We've got these you know quote unquote stars that are out there. And you know on paper, that it doesn't seem like that they're ah doing a whole lot. But we've seen flashes and and flares here and there. And you're like, oh my gosh, like Colby Young is a big body.
00:41:51
Speaker
That's probably why we went to him on the last play of the game. Is it under thrown? Did he run or run wrong? Was he expecting it? I don't know. But like yeah he very clearly had a position on that deep defensive back that had the ball been in a better spot. He probably would have outmuscled that guy. And frankly, every every contested catch I've seen him do, he's bossed someone. so like yeah There's all these little facets of these guys' as games that I feel like we're figuring out. um We just need to go out there and do it more regularly and and just execute it. So I think that the identity for this team is is ultimately, we want to be a vertical passing and passing attack team. We don't have a Brock Bowers.
00:42:31
Speaker
Uh, we're not a, you know, the, the, the knock on Georgia for wide receivers was that, oh yeah, that's tight end you over there. Well, Brock Bauer's gone. Other tight ends on the roster haven't been producing. Where are we going with the ball? We're going to the outside receivers. So like, guess what? If you were a good wide receiver, we'll figure out a way to get you the ball. And that seems to be the identity that they're trying to work through is get the outside passing game going and you know, good things are going to happen. Yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Uh, second part, would you rather bread coming up with a, with a, would you rather, would you rather lose again and skip the SEC championship or win out and have a rematch with Alabama or Tennessee? I don't like losing personally. I personally, I would rather win out. I know I've joked about how third place in the SEC is a great place to be, uh, Kirby can worry, worry about strategically such as that. Uh, personally, I like to win.
00:43:28
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I guess from a, I guess from a selfish standpoint, like, you know, beat everyone um kind of thing. Yeah. Um, so I'm not going to sit here and say that I would rather, you know, lose a game, but like, if we lose another game, it probably isn't going to matter. Um, I think that the SEC championship, as much as I hate to say it has become a symbolic, it's more, it's more of a symbolic thing because even though Alabama won the SEC championship, nobody gives a s**t. Like, sorry Carter, like, no, nobody cares that you won the SEC championship, Georgia won.
00:44:05
Speaker
True to win the national championship. That's all that anybody cares about. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing it does get you now, here's the, the only thing I'll say over that to slightly disagree is. but the generals advocate Yeah. again Yeah. If you, if you make it to the SEC championship, you better win it because if you lose that game, you don't get a first round by in the playoff.
00:44:28
Speaker
You have to play an opening round game and now you just played an extra game. That's why I actually like you don't, but you don't know going into that game, whether you're like you don't know when you make that game, if you're going to win it or not. So like, yes, it's your eye. My opinion is you are in a better spot.
00:44:44
Speaker
to finish third in the SEC, then finish first or second and losing that game. Like third place is to me, I think is probably better off just because of you get a bye week. Um, or, you know, you get an, you get an off week, an extra week off that the SEC championship loser does not get. So that's the only caveat. Yeah. Yeah. I am. The game, the game, the gamification of the post season is 1000% going to impact the regular seasons. Yeah.
00:45:13
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Uh, let's see next up. Uh, Kevin, uh, how many pallets of coffee are required to have the team awake for the first 30 minutes of Saturday's game? And where does it need to be shifted? So I don't know. How about all the coffee? Hopefully, you know, I guess two things there. I started to say, hopefully, you know, we are within the confines of San for stadium, uh, dually field of San for stadium. We're between the hedges. Um, we don't have to worry about that. I will say though, like it is homecoming.
00:45:43
Speaker
Sometimes the festivities i don't know what home coming it's all looks like you know all the you know homecoming is missus missus last year was pretty pretty hyped up so i don't feel like we so much had that problem. um But i would say like if you go into the game definitely no get there early be loud like we want these guys to.
00:46:01
Speaker
to come home to the crazy Sanford state of environment they're used to. So I would say I don't know about pallets of coffee, but I think, uh, I think we as fans can put the energy into Sanford stadium to get, to get them awake. Yeah. Yeah, I agreed.
00:46:17
Speaker
All right. Let's see. Got a couple I kind of paired up here. So Chad Jarvis, ah Chad said, do y'all see us being more vanilla? We're opening it up on Saturday. We also added 20 minute party podcast is a good listen as well. That's ah Chad and and Josh dog stats. 20 minute podcast. I don't know what that is. I don't even know what that means. It's a joke. ah Brevity is not our strength. I'm reading it as a quiet insult.
00:46:47
Speaker
oh that was chat i wonder if we're going to be vanilla word I don't think so that's what moral I don't I'm to me now there's no more point there's no point of being vanilla i don't and we didn't see like trick plays against Alabama which I don't know that we So I won't so much expect that, but like, but there's the hell out of me. Yeah. But like, I don't, I don't expect us to, like I said, I feel like we were holding things back. We showed new things against Alabama. I don't see a point of holding things back anymore. So I don't think so. I don't see it being at all on Saturday. I hope that, I hope that there are some things that we took away from Alabama. Like, for example, there were, there were some definitely, there were some definitely, uh, some schematic things that they did with their lines and their shifts and
00:47:28
Speaker
there were some formations that they threw out there that that Alabama had not shown. So there's something to be said about introducing some new things in the season. so And some of those plays, frankly, were really good against our defense. So um if they worked against our boys, they probably would work against these guys, too. So if we had anything, yeah I would love to see us try it out, kind of like to your point. like There's no point in and holding it back, the long con.
00:47:56
Speaker
yeah is, um you know, I personally think it's kind of for the birds because like, who cares? Like if you can execute something at ah at a high level, like execute it, like but run until run until they stop it kind of thing. Yep. Yep. Totally agree.
00:48:12
Speaker
Um, Aaron King said, where, where is Oscar Delp and Nate Frazier? I mean, Oscar Delp was out there. Um, he's out there fumbling and dropping Delp, Delpa brother. probably He is the worst. He's the worst PFF grade of anybody on the offensive side on from the starting perspective.
00:48:32
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. We need to step up. Yeah. We just need to get, need to get his confidence, need to get his confidence up. I mean, but the the flip side of that is we, you know, lost and lucky caught a touchdown. I mean, so I, I, I see him being featured more, um, made for nature, not inside sources. I just, my, my sense is always you've got to be able to block to get on the field. That's my best guess test, but that's, I don't have any inside sources on that.
00:48:59
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. But I'll go back to what I was saying before about, you know, we have a prototypical, you know, we we have a guy that a mold of a position player and what we asked that position player to do, you got to be able to block, like, got to be able to block yourself on the outside, you got to be able to block ah running back, pick up the blitzes, all that kind of stuff. But there are ways that you can get this kid the ball. um Yeah, thank you figure it, figure it, figure it out.
00:49:25
Speaker
but Yeah, like he doesn't have to block and I guess if you're throwing him out there and he's never blocking that that's that's something to be said but you could also throw him out there and then shift him out into the wide receiver to keep things off balance where like frankly, that's that's some of that was is what Alabama did they got smile London into into coverage they got Jim and Walker into coverage by doing little shifts and things like that where Like, holy crap. Like we got a guy that has no business being out that far. All of a sudden they're having, they're being asked to defend these little guys that are way faster and shocking. Like they they got burned. They're not coverage guys. Like, so there are ways that you can like, they say a scheme guys open or whatever. That's one of those things. Like get someone outside, get them on a mismatch.
00:50:13
Speaker
see how they're lined up and and and figure it out. Like I said, like yeah we've got to figure out ways to to get these guys the ball that are producing. And if it takes doing something a little untraditional, then let's again just figure it out.
00:50:27
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I think we hit the first struggles in the offensive identity. We probably, we probably beat that dead horse at this point. Um, he did want to know when are we going to get a guy like Milro a quarterback, the threat of a quarterback that can run and pass like that is unstoppable. Um, I hate to say it, but we had him on the roster and he left. Yeah.
00:50:49
Speaker
Yes, agreed. Yeah, I mean, the general Miller was Justin Fields, basically just a little bit bigger and probably a little bit stronger, but you don't know what he would have turned into under under our regime. But um you know, we tried. We tried. We tried to have someone on the roster. Yeah, ah I would say that but would you say that Rashada is in that vein? I don't know. I'm not sure. Honestly, I don't know enough about him. Maybe.
00:51:18
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. um I don't know that to be perfectly blunt, I don't know that that type of quarterback is in Bobo's wheelhouse, because you go back and look at all the quarterbacks that we've brought in since he's been either, you know, ah at our school, whether it's he's recruiting and coaching, or he's the offensive coordinator, or he's a head coach at Colorado State, or he's back to offensive coordinator, like he's always gone after these like prototypical, you know,
00:51:47
Speaker
quarterbacks, and, you know, maybe some of them have, you know, mobility here and there, but like, nothing to the extent of of Agela Milrow, where he's just like a freakin nature, right? Impossible to bring down in the backfield kind of guy, big, strong, fast, can throw, you know, all those kinds of things. Yeah, not to mention that those guys don't come around. Those guys don't come around very often. So yeah, they don't, they don't grow on trees.
00:52:14
Speaker
Yeah. God, God doesn't make a whole lot of large human beings that can throw the football 60 yards. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Uh, let's see next up. We've got boss dog. Uh, what will the Reverend's excuses be after he gets beat by the dogs by 50 this next weekend? I'll tell you what he's going to throw his players under the bus. Like he always does.
00:52:36
Speaker
Yes, exactly. You've seen the SEC shorts. Oh my gosh. Who was the guy, who was the Ole Miss quarterback? Jackson Behar. No, no, no. The one that played for Freeze at Ole Miss that like went on Twitter and like had a tirade about Hugh Freeze. Was it Bo Wallace?
00:52:56
Speaker
Bo Wallace. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah go So go check Bo Wallace's timeline, uh, bus dog, and he'll tell you what ah all the things he freezes is going to say. So that's my answer. Yeah. That man, that man, uh, chose, chose violence.
00:53:10
Speaker
Yeah, he did. He did. Um, I'll see, uh, Fletcher Proctor. Is there a chance Kirby goes Herb Brooks and has Bobo Beck throw to the end zone over and over and over and route to a 50 burger and attempt to try and attract CJ Wiley to Athens.
Recruiting Tactics and Game Strategy
00:53:27
Speaker
I mean, maybe here's what I'll say. Like, I feel like this is going to be a I don't think they're going to like force that. But if that's what Auburn is allowing us to do, um then it then it might happen. um But I don't know, man, like we had ah You know, a lot of people were like, Oh, we were like showing off throwing deep from JT Daniels to, uh, wait, who were, who were nasty. Now I can't even remember. Uh, we werere were throwing deep when we had, uh, when we had arch manning, like in the crowd, that one game back at men, when was that? Like, I think that was actually in 2021. Uh, when you, when you do stuff and it feels like you're trying to, to get someone, to it doesn't matter. I don't know.
00:54:15
Speaker
We were like, oh, we're going deep to AD Mitchell and he's catching a touchdown like right in front of our commanding I know different position but you know, that's gonna convince him to come here Yeah, I don't know. I don't I don't know. I'm gonna say probably Probably not. I don't think that would be the reason we might do it But I don't know that's gonna be the motivation. He's he's currently a photo stick man, right? Sounds right shouldn Shouldn't take much to get you to take him in from there Yeah, I've got I just quickly looked it up. He's he's crystal balled to UGA. Okay. 100 100 at 100% as well. So seems like that he's coming. He's coming. So
00:54:52
Speaker
Um, sure. We'll go. We'll go with that. Um, see if we can get this kid to stay home. or I guess, um, don't know a whole lot about him. I mean, uh, he did good. I was and know he's, I know he's from your almond water gym. hey I know you're a little partial. Milton, Milton alone. Hey, you know, is it's been done before Sean Bailey. Sean Bailey was a, a Milton, Milton grad as well. Did some good. dialogue like I liked the pedigree. I liked the pedigree.
00:55:18
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it seems like a highly rated recruit. We've got other higher that you're ready to recruit. So if you're fast and tall and big and can, can catch the ball there, there's an opportunity for you here for sure. Yeah. Yeah. ah way We're always, we're open to take the wide receivers. We need to hit that vertical passing game that we talked about. Yeah, seriously. I think that if I'm a quarter, if I'm a guy like that, I'm i'm probably questioning like, who's going to be the quarterback next year kind of thing. Mm. The Gleasy.
00:55:45
Speaker
i'd rather I'd rather not get into that conversation right now. but Table that. Table that. Let's see, Alex Berger. He said, just wanted to get your guys' thoughts in these next two weeks. Since we essentially play the two cabooses of the conference, I know no one expected the schedule to have no breaks. ah But I think we have a good opportunity to get on the same page on both sides of the ball in these next two weeks. What are your thoughts? um He said, also, do you think from here on out that we're going to be flying under the radar?
00:56:15
Speaker
Under the national media's radar radar, especially on that four letter network i love that the best way to get on that that on their radar is to go out and have Carson Beck throw up 400 500 yards passing and um I think that he clearly showed that he has that in him if they if they're called if he's called upon to and to do it. So that's one way to do it, is to just go out there and just ah just bull rush everybody, like a bull in a china shop and just knock everybody down.
00:56:47
Speaker
Yeah, I think the other thing about these next two weeks is they're at home. yeah and we get to play We get to play two home games. um we've been on yeah We've been on the road. It's only our second home game. We're in October. like this The way this schedule was lined up is is so weird. um We're about to go on the road some more significantly after this.
00:57:08
Speaker
So you know everyone's going to be at home. They get to sleep in their own bed. um I think that stuff makes a difference. I mean, these are kids out here playing this game. um So I think they'll be they'll be comfortable there. Exactly. Got the got the got the creature comforts literally and figurous figuratively, although they don't need to be drinking. ah But yeah. So that's what I think.
00:57:30
Speaker
All right. Then we got John Michael D. Uh, not a question, but two things to share. Hashtag uniform Twitter obligations say that we should wear black because it's Auburn at home. But I know, well I know we will not, uh, I'll pause right there and just say, agreed. You know, we've we've kind of stopped the uniform watch segment. Uh, not happening. I'll, I'll, I'll believe it when I see it that we'll wear something else. So.
00:57:55
Speaker
And again, it's, it's, it is too early in the season. I feel like to wear black. So late in the season would agree. Um, and then he said a hopeful tidbit, uh, for us is the last time my wife birthed us a son, the dogs and braves pulled the double baby boy two is due on the 16th. So first off, congrats, John Michael D. Uh, loving that, loving that baby boy on the way.
00:58:20
Speaker
Bring more, bring more into the family, you know, the dog family. I feel like, you know, uh, news baby boy for John Michael D could be fast friends with, uh, the true man, uh, and maybe have some, some uniform talk going on in the future. So future, future Twitter friend, maybe a hunter's son, true man and, and, and Teddy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:43
Speaker
which is British Bulldog. It's been a season of babies. And it's true. We didn't we didn't we didn't talk about that. yeah That was announced on the day of the Bama game. British Bulldog and his wife welcomed their first to to the family. So congrats on that. Yeah, man. They're all going to be fast friends. Maybe maybe they'll have a, those three will have a text to read someday.
00:59:03
Speaker
be It's going to be a future a feature Morris Hall tailgate crew. Future Motown. Yes. Yes, exactly. I'm excited to go to Motown. I would be too. All right. Friend of the show, Tim Riley. How do we use the Auburn game to reestablish our goals for the season and give us two two key priorities that need to happen? All right. First goal. Just win, Davey. Nice. Nice. The goals are there. Just win.
00:59:32
Speaker
Yeah, i am and say I would say just just reestablishing goals like in my opinion, I'm I want to see I want to see these guys rep like this was Alabama kind of thing like I want to see them come out like just just you know, yeah do you have the sound bite show me like i think I need the offense to show me. This has been like ah one of my my Michigan buddy from last year, Brian Kingsbury, that you know you may remember talking to him but um at one of the tailgates. But I told him that my mantra for the season thus far has been show me, whether it's show me on the defense, show me on the defensive line, show me on the offensive line, show me on the quarterback.
01:00:18
Speaker
show me at the running back position. Like offense is where I'm focused right now because I really don't have a whole lot to be concerned about on the defense because they have exhibited, you know, um yeah, we had, we gave up a bunch of points in the first quarter, but our offense really put our team in a crappy situation that yeah was, would have been impossible for literally any defense, including like those Miami defenses from back in the day or whatever. um Like I think that
01:00:49
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i just want to see I just want to see the offense, just bust it out. like Just get get get everybody comfortable. you know You heard rumblings about Carson Beck frustrated with snaps and all that kind of stuff, but like you know let the offense cook, basically.
01:01:03
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Yeah. And i I will say, I'll say this, I don't know, and maybe reestablishing, I guess that maybe I'm reading too much into this. I don't think we need to change our goals. I'll say that with one loss, your goals don't need to change. Even if your goal is go to the SEC championship. um We went out The odds are we're there. um There could be some weird tiebreaker scenarios, but we've still got you know undefeated Texas, undefeated Tennessee. They're on the schedule and Ole Miss already has a loss. um so As far as the people that we don't play, you're talking like maybe Mizzou or something. so
01:01:39
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Win out you're still probably going to Atlanta um There's no way to know that like we used to there's no east and west so it's hard It's harder to say that but I still feel like if that was your goal, that's not off the table So that's I feel like the reestablishing is Reminding that of what they still have to play for we don't have to change our goals So to me, that's that's the main thing. um But I agree with you. Like, I feel like what we and we what we haven't seen what this team has been so good about and was so good in the back to back runs and was good through 12 games with this last year was, you know,
01:02:15
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13 of 14 games last year, um, was playing complimentary football. So the offense feeding off the defense and vice versa, it's offense, it's special teams, it's defense, everything working together. And that definitely didn't happen against Alabama. So to me, that's, that's the main thing there is how those, how those come together.
01:02:34
Speaker
Just, just keep the main thing, the main thing, Jim, keep the main thing, the main thing, keep shopping. Uh, I mean, but yeah, I mean, shoot two key priorities, protect the football. Um, and but but I agree with you, man. I feel like it's, it's mainly offensively right now, protect the football. And I'd like to get some, some semblance of a run game. Cause that's just going to help open up the past game.
01:02:52
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I like what Kirby said about that. I guess in in his post game and his postcame speech, he was talking about like you know we we need to have we need to have more moments then than they do, like moment moment by moment. like that he's been That's like one of the things that they've been talking about a lot and some of these like quotes and videos that I've seen like moment by moment. like you don't You don't win this moment, forget about it, move to the next one. Win that moment, way more moments than you lose.
01:03:26
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um you know that's i Probably football is probably the best the best example of that because like from one player to the next, you could get shut down You can get shut down, get off your get off your mark um on one play, and then bust a touchdown on the next play. um Moment by moment, it it doesn't have to be that way. And you know just kind of tie in a bow on like the that that message and how it gets conveyed. like We talk about that and and for Carter's baseball team. And baseball is another great example. like you know Talk about a ah sport that's like depressing. If you let it get depressing, you just have to move on to the next thing. like You made an error, tough cookies. like
01:04:05
Speaker
Figure it out move on to the next move on to the next play. It's the next play of the next pitch Whatever and it's the same thing for football like just like in life like it's not everything goes your way You just got to move on to the next moment Yeah. Yeah. Like it.
Fun and Predictions with Over/Under Bets
01:04:19
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All right. Uh, we've got Jason's would you rathers from the hub dog? All right. JP, the Auburn edition, they're sorry. Were you gonna say something? No, I said yes. Yeah. Still need, you know, I feel like there needs to be some kind of intro maybe for would you rather say I had an idea, haven't executed it yet. Well, we'll still working on that. yeah Okay. All right. Would you rather swallow a shovel of hot coals or lose another game to Alabama?
01:04:48
Speaker
Yes. I can't. We need to stop losing to these guys, which, yeah, maybe of course it had to be them. Whatever. Of course it had to be them. I mean, the the truth of the matter is like, it would have been a terrible situation even if we had won. I talked about that on the podcast. We were in an impossible place. Like, you could not win that situation. Where you can win that situation is to win it when it matters most. And frankly, all intense purposes, that game mattered zero. Sorry, Josh.
01:05:25
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Uh, second, would you rather cheer for war Eagle tiger planesman or Ramblin rec engineering bumblebees? And that's a tough one. I'm going to Ramblin, right? I just can't do that. I put it, I put it to you this way, Jim. I put it to you this way, right? Everybody gets a scholarship off from when they visit Auburn. Not many people get into Georgia Tech, dude. So if my kids, if my kids are able to get into Georgia georgia Tech, I'll be like, you know, go, go bumblebees.
01:05:54
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I always tell my kids I was I always told my kids you can go to college anywhere you want except Georgia Tech. Oh, yeah, I've got I've said you can go anywhere you want, except for Florida, oh yeah only because because well, not only is frankly, my FTP math. Like, if you're smart enough to get into Georgia Tech, like, dude, like totally makes total sense. Like, I had i had kids that ah taught in the youth group at church that
01:06:26
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lifelong Alabama fans, a bunch of Georgia and they are definitely rocking Georgia G now. So like, um, yeah you know, it's, it's a good school. It's good opportunity. Like, you know, whatever. If I had to pick, i' I'd say, I'd say Bumblebee is for sure.
01:06:40
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I mean, I can't cheer for either of them, but when this, you know, we're talking about cheering or are we're talking about like rooting. He says cheer. He said, he said cheer for. So, you know, maybe it's like, let's maybe we could say it like they're playing each other. Where you were. Exactly. Like each other. Who do you refer? Uh, man, ah probably Auburn, honestly, just cause there's like the shared history of Auburn stuff. Like they give us dually, we give them pet die, like that kind of stuff. So that's going to be my cop out answer.
01:07:09
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I do tell people that like the the closest approximation of a Georgia fan that I could come across would be an Auburn fan. Yeah. Yeah. In my experience. Yeah. The tech fans are a different beast.
01:07:22
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Yeah. All right. Would you rather have one really good bourbon or multiple kind of good mixin verbans pre pregain i'll take the multiple bourbons sir and the pregame yeah he he a clarifying statement yeah pre I'll take the multiple bourbon So here's where I'm going to say, JP, and then I'm going to experience this for the first time on Saturday because I have not seen this yet. So I'm going to say that I'm going to go with one really good bourbon because now when I get into the stadium, I can have a classic city lager.
01:07:54
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so I haven't experienced that yet. This will be my first time being able to do that. I think Ken may grab a sip of seltzer and we'll see how that goes. Man, that'll be fun. Enjoy it. That's definitely a good experience for sure. I definitely would prefer to just drink a bunch of bourbon. Understood. I feel like this is one where there's no really wrong answer.
01:08:23
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Although it did say one really good bourbon, right? So there are multiple kinds of good Burmans. So what I would do is maybe like get like a solo cup and just fill it all the way up of the good of the really, really.
01:08:38
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her You said, you said one bourbon. Right, right. Like how, how much, how heavy, how heavy is this pour? What are we talking here? It's like, it's like the wine glass. It's like the wine glass. It's an entire bottle. Right. And you said like one glass. Right. All Would you rather have a four 15 or a 7 PM kickoff?
01:08:56
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Given the fact that I tweeted this out when the Mississippi State game time was announced, 4.15 is the perfect time frame for it gives you a lot a lot of tailgate, a lot of tailgate runway, a lot of pregame, a lot of pregame run runway.
01:09:12
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Yeah. um And you can still get home at a decent hour if you're if you're going to the game and still get some nighttime experience and you get a little bit of daytime if you're at home and a little bit of nighttime if you're at home as well. So I think I think 415 in the fall is a fantastic um ah fantastic timeframe. Totally agree. Totally agree. These night games are too late and I have to wait way too long during the day. So They're fun, but to me there can be 20. We've had earlier this season, it was like 8 30 or something like that. Well, it was the, um, the Kentucky game was like kicked off late, right? Like, cause the game before it, there was the storm or something. It got pushed back. I don't know. There you go. The, the, the, the later the games are, the more likely they are to get pushed by other games. Yeah. Yeah. So I totally agree. All right. And then his last one, would you rather, uh, mimosa or a buddy Mary? Are you a buddy, buddy Mary guy?
01:10:07
Speaker
I'm not. I enjoy your tomato soup for breakfast. It does surprise me because and a lot of times it'll be like a pickle in them or something. And I know you're, I know you're definitely anti. I would probably, I would probably need a Tums, a couple of Tums if I were to drink a Bloody Mary. Although if you Jason are making a Bloody Mary and have a, a recipe that you swear by, I would probably drink a Bloody Mary.
01:10:32
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I'm not a big fan of champagne in general. It gives me a headache. I feel like I find I find that champagne gives me a headache. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go with Momosa though as well. I'm not not a huge Bloody Mary guy. Um, I don't know. And every time like I have one that I think I like, I like it for like maybe half of it. And then I'm like, Oh yeah. Then like I remember, I'm like, Oh, I don't like these, but hey, yeah, I would, I would, I would trust the hug dog to try one out. Enjoy your tomato soup, sir.
01:10:59
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All right. so ah That is all for the listener questions, except for our last segment.
01:11:13
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god a freshman going to
01:11:19
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It is time for coaches over unders Auburn edition. As we covered in the last episode, John, you extended your lead. So you have the honors. Do you choose to um do you want to go first or do you want to defer?
01:11:37
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I need to look at the over under questions. like yeah Let's see. we'rere there there I'm there. Uh, so the first over under is Carson Beck passing touchdowns. Yeah. I'll let you go. I'll let you answer this one. Okay. Um, Carson Beck over under two and a half patching passing touchdowns. I'm going to go over over. Yeah. I'm going to go over on that one too.
01:12:05
Speaker
Okay. Um, over to you. Uh, so, or you go, you go first on this one. Uh, Georgia rush yards over, under one 25. I'm going to go over. Okay. Um, I'm going to go over as well and over as well. Establish the run. Okay. All right. My turn over, under three and a half receptions by a tight end. Uh, I'm going to go over through the tight end. I feel like we could see a Mr. Lucky have a good day.
01:12:34
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Yeah, I'm going to go over as well. Okay. Uh, over to you switching over to the defense over, under one and a half force turnovers for the Georgia defense. I'm going to go over. I am too. that The rate that they're turning the ball over. Uh, I'm going to say over, over as well. sister Stick with that trend line. I know. Yeah.
01:12:57
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I'm not and i letting you extend your lead. We'll see if I have place that I want to pick here. Uh, okay. So for my turn sacks over, under two and a half sacks, I'm going to go over.
01:13:11
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I'm also going to go over on this one too. Ooh, really? I, I'm kind of surprised, kind of surprised. I thought you were going to bust out. Wouldn't say that you needed the defense too, show me but you decided to it's, it's, it's partially, it's partially because I actually think that that's a pretty decent line. Um, also I'm, I'm hedging here. I know. I but i got to see the championship to go after here. I gotta, I gotta leave. I gotta hold on to like, uh, yeah.
01:13:36
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It's like Alabama versus Georgia. Oh God. Two sand JP. All right. Your turn. Uh, over under 150 passing yards for Auburn. 150 passing yards for Auburn. Yeah. It's probably a good line. I feel like, um, just checking one thing real quick. Uh, what was the line? 150. I'm going to go over on that one. Okay.
01:14:04
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but for Auburn, right? yeah Yeah. Yeah, I am too. I was hoping we were gonna get to disagree on one. But I'm gonna go over as well. um And then the last or or not last for our special teams, ah my turn to pick first over under three and a half total field goals in this game. I'm gonna go under.
01:14:24
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total field goals across both teams. You said you you you you took the under, right? I did. I'm going to go over. Okay. And then last one is for you. Over under 20 UGA rivals debates on Twitter this week.
Final Scores and Predictions for Georgia vs. Auburn
01:14:44
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I don't know. Smash the over. Okay. Okay. I like to just not disagree on these because I just, I feel like I don't want to deal with the, uh, the headache of the, the, the debating on whether or not one of these was tracked, uh, correctly. So I'll go with this. I'm just going to forewarn you. If you, if you went against me, I'm going to stuff the ballot.
01:15:12
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Amazing. Amazing. Okay. Okay. Stop stop the steal. Fair. Fair. Fair. Okay. ah Coach, as always, thank you for sending those and tracking them as well. Appreciate it. Always love the Sunday texts that we get from coach when he tells us ah how we did.
01:15:31
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Yes. You know, it's a good Sunday when you get a text from coach. That's right. That's right. All right. Uh, time for final predictions. Um, so last I checked Georgia was or is a 24 and a half point favorite, uh, with the over, under a 52 and a half that gives it an implied score, uh, of Georgia 38 and a half to 14, uh, the odd shark predicted score. And this was where I feel like we talked about earlier, like, well in the podcast, before the podcast,
01:15:59
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that the math isn't math-ing. Oddshark has Georgia 37 Auburn 31. Interesting. ah College football insiders, they have Georgia 37, basically 37.5 to 12.5. I did throw our scoring impact spreadsheet in here.
01:16:18
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um Georgia's offensive impact on like opponents. We're basically scoring 3.67 points more than teams usually give up against the power five and we're holding teams to 10.73 points less than they score on average against the power five. so that would If you do all that math, this is like Georgia 27.6 to five and a half is what that's about. I'll keep doing those for now. and I mean, just, just, just pause on literally, you couldn't get more all over the place. Yeah. Yeah. It's more been this than this game. Like I don't understand how any of these things can be the same predicting the same game. Like, yeah. Like, the like first of all, let's, let's, let's, let's start with odd shark or the odds. I mean, are there other, other, other gambling like websites that have a similar set up where they give you the implied score and they give you the predicted score?
01:17:17
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um I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if such a thing exists. Like, is this a normal thing? Like, for for gambling people out there, if you were a gambler, a degenerate gambler, like, what what does this mean? Because I don't know that I've ever seen anything quite like this, like where the implied score indicates something completely different. I mean, we're talking like you couldn't get more different.
01:17:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the implied score is just like, you know, applying the over under to the spread. but Like I do that myself, but the odds are, I don't know. I don't know where odds are cut. This is, I, this is a question for Ross and it would probably involve something around standard deviations and, and things.
01:18:03
Speaker
Uh, so yeah. ah love and andja Yeah. Um, Yeah. So I got nothing on this one. I don't, I don't understand what's going on here, but I feel like the implied score feels, um, you know, college insiders, implied score, like those feel like what we're up against here. Yeah. Yeah. I agree.
01:18:26
Speaker
All right, I'll go. I'll go. Um, so I'll give you two nuggets, uh, in the Kirby smart era, Georgia is 13 and three after a loss and Georgia has not lost packed back games in the regular season since 2016. Kirby's first year as a head coach. Um, we're also in a 26 game home win streak, uh, which leads FBS. So we do still have a streak to protect. Uh, I'm going to go dogs 35 to 10 in this one.
01:18:51
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I like it. I like it. I like
Predictions for Upcoming SEC Games
01:18:53
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it. um Yeah, I'm gonna go... I'm gonna with 38-16. Okay. Okay. I like it. we're in We're in similar spots. Yeah. Do you have... um Are there field goals involved there or did they score two touchdowns and go for two twice? I'm just curious.
01:19:12
Speaker
My hope is that there's field goals involved there for my, uh, over unders situation. Nice. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. Uh, okay. Let's, let's hit some coach gave us some games around, uh, the sec to look at, uh, when we could just do, I think we just picked these straight up. So you got, uh, number one, Bama is favored by 23 points at Vanderbilt. Uh, that games at four 15 on Saturday on the SEC network. Uh, does the tide have a letdown at Vandy John?
01:19:43
Speaker
Probably not. i think I think they'll be okay. and he said it's I I do feel like they might be asleep a little bit early in the game, ah but then they pull away and it's not even close. They may cover. All right, the second one, the fighting hunters.
01:20:00
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now crazy that our spread it's It's crazy that our spread is bigger than their spread. Yeah, I guess they're just saying that Auburn's a little bit better than Vanderbilt. Or no, Vanderbilt's a little bit better than Auburn, I guess. Vandy has improved. Vandy has improved. I will say that. They beat Virginia Tech. The Fighting Hunters, number 12 Ole Miss, goes to Columbia to play South Carolina at 3.30 on ESPN. ah The Fighting Hunters, the Ole Miss Rebels, are favored by nine. It was a tough out last week against Kentucky. Can they bounce back? Chippy, what do you think?
01:20:29
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I got to tell you, that is a trap trap game. Yeah. For the fighting hunters. Yeah. um That spread scares the piss out of me if I'm, if I'm the oldest fighting hunters. Yeah. Transitive property says that South Carolina is going to win because South Carolina beat Kentucky who beat Ole Miss. Yeah. I'm going to South Carolina in that game. Okay. and Okay. I'm going to stick with the fighting hunters. I think they, I think they bounced back. We'll see. We'll see though.
01:20:56
Speaker
We will find out what they're made of this week for sure. I think that this will be this will be a ah game that's going to decide you know potentially how... When do we when do we when do we play Ole Miss? Late in the season. Late in the season? Okay. It it could give us ah a trend line because like if we can get them in a spot where You know, they they would be on the verge of gay being pretty much eliminated if if they lose to South Carolina and then lose to us. Like I feel like that they might be they could potentially be on the verge of elimination by the time they get to us if they lose to South Carolina. So.
01:21:29
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It's November 9th. We play them there between Florida and Tennessee is when we played almost. Yeah, and I will say South Carolina has been a tough place to play this year. Tough, tough place. Yeah. Alright, the keeps me in Columbia. So hot there. Sorry. Our favorite our favorite game pack.
01:21:49
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um Let's see, number four Tennessee is favored by 13 and a half at Arkansas. That's a 7.30 p.m. kickoff on ABC. It's an interesting line. I feel like that's ah that's a pretty favorable line for anybody that's looking to actually grab something. like him i was here If I was a gambler, I'd be putting my money in on um that one because I feel like Tennessee is going to win that one big.
01:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, I think so too. I think so too. I'll take the balls there. Uh, this one is interesting. Central Florida at Florida 7 45 PM SEC network. Uh, UCF is favored by three. So explain it to me like I'm five. Like if it's, if they, if they lose by more than three, like What does it, so, okay. So you're wanting to know like how that line gets applied in gambling. Yeah. yeah So when it says UCF minus three, so you could think of it this way, it's easier to flip it around and say Florida's put less three. So as far as gambling goes, if you were to bet on that game, if you're betting on the line, the game starts instead of zero zero would give three more points to Florida. So it's like Florida starts up, starts the game up three to nothing. So, so UCF has to win by more than three to quote, win the bet. If you picked UCF against the spread.
01:23:05
Speaker
That's crazy. Given that spread, I would take Florida in that one. I would take Florida. There are only two L's currently in Florida. Yes. I think by the end of Saturday, there's going to be three. I'm taking the nights.
01:23:23
Speaker
Okay. And last one. and The question the question there, the question there and part of part of my rationale on on picking Florida there is because I feel like that if they lose the UCF that Billy maybe maybe he may get fired after that game. You want it you want them to survive until the cocktail party? I want I want them to survive for forever forever. True. Yeah.
01:23:42
Speaker
Yeah. Fair enough. I need them to do just enough to like maybe get to a bowl game and then you know that they're like, okay, we've got a great momentum for the season. We're going to keep them around. Yeah, true.
Game Day Plans and Reflections
01:23:55
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This is interesting on the scheduling note because you know we get mad about 12 PM pick-offs.
01:23:59
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The only, uh, intra conference top 25 matchup number nine, Missouri at number 25, Texas A and&M 12 PM kickoff, which I think is 11 local, um, or even earlier it's what time zone is that? Uh, so noon on ABC Eastern. school So an A and&M is favorite. A&M is number 25. Missouri is number nine. A&M is favored by two points. um Who do you got here? I mean, I'm going with A&M, but I'm going to get on a soapbox about this whole BS. This is a game that would be a 730 with Ron Franklin by playing that music, that intro music for um but from AC's history. Yeah. um
01:24:40
Speaker
like this This game should never in a million years be played at 12 p.m. I don't understand what the heck is going on with this. It's because of Fox. Fox put all this money into that big noon kickoff and now ABC wants to keep eyeballs on their network and not on Fox.
01:25:01
Speaker
And so they're trying to match it. So that's, that's the real reason but behind it. And Fox, yeah and the big dude, the big noon kickoff as does like crazy, like, like that was a gamble that paid off big time for Fox. Like it has done huge numbers for them. So it was like, it was like an untapped into window.
01:25:18
Speaker
You know, there weren't big games in the timeline, so people weren't watching as much. And so they put these big games there and they get, they're getting huge numbers. It's like, it's done really well. I'm curious. I'm curious to know like how these, these Newton games with these like highly ranked opponents and things like that. Like how are those fairing for, you know, ESPN, for example? Yeah. Number one, the, the, the crews on those big games are on these, like like, who's the crew on that game? Like.
01:25:47
Speaker
Well, I'll say I mean I dude I don't know but I mean I know like, you know, we're we're at the 330 and we don't have like the main crew I Would assume it's not like Herb Street in Fowler. Yeah. Yeah, cuz because Herb Street can't go from game day to college That's what I'm saying. so Yeah, that's what I'm saying like these games are not like I Yeah, and it it doesn't it doesn't make any sense to me. So you get you get a subpar crew. um I also like culturally speaking, like I feel like that the southeast has been like, I don't know, i would I would be very curious to know like what the what the ratings are like on these games versus the big 10 games, because I feel like culturally speaking, like the Northeast Midwest, like it's it just a different culture up there. Yeah. um
01:26:34
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And I feel like in the South, we like these big games at night. We like them at 3.30. We like them at 6 o'clock. We like them at 7. Yeah. Give it to us in the later afternoon because this is why I say culturally, when you're talking about a 12 o'clock kickoff in September or October or whatever, in Florida or in in College Station in in Georgia and freaking the surface of the sun, Columbia. Yeah, these are these are miserable games for people. And it's not fun. Like, yeah, yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you. I mean, I agree. I agree. I'm just answering the question. Why?
01:27:17
Speaker
I can look into what the numbers are. I do know though, the Georgia, Alabama game last week did insane numbers. Like it was like the most called most watched collegeable game in like a long time. So it, yeah, shocking. Yeah. You put, you put that game on, you know, it was on network TV at night, top five match up. So yeah, shocking. All right. So you said you're taking A&M. I'm taking A&M there. Yeah. I think it was very good. I think it was very good. It's exposed.
01:27:42
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Yeah. Uh, I'm going to go Missouri, but I think, I think, I think that actually should be a pretty good game. So, um, spread, spread indicates that it is. Yeah. So I'll i'll be, I'll be watching that, uh, on the TV in Motown. So I haven't been paying too much attention to these teams, but I do remember hearing Missouri was like a dark horse. Yeah. Yeah. And then, but they've, they've, they've struggled. I mean, they should have lost a Vanderbilt. Right. I think. All right.
01:28:09
Speaker
All right. Well, that's what we got. Um, so I will be, I'll be there. We're going, um, like I said, Kim and I and Lily are going to head down, uh, head over with, with, with Friptog and Ponda. Uh, my, my first trip in classic city. Uh, we're going to head down on Friday. Yeah. So we'll be there. We'll get down there like late. Yeah. We'll head down after, after work, basically.
01:28:35
Speaker
Good stuff. Yeah. I like it. I like it. Tell, you'll have to tell Friptog, are you get you guys going to do, are you going to, is, I wonder if, is, a is Belding, is Belding going to be there? Is he going to get a ah preview of Ponda's famous bean dip?
01:28:51
Speaker
Yeah, I think what he was talking about, I think he was saying my brother-in-law is going to make it for they have a band thing going on. um That's right. That's right. Georgia, Texas. I will say I don't know 100 percent, but I do know like my my sister, like they can't come this weekend. I think that's because of band obligations, high school band obligations, which would mean Brett's in the same boat because their kids are in the high school band together.
01:29:17
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So I think my guess is no, Brett. Let us know. Yeah, let us know, Brett. Yeah. but Yeah. No, I'm looking forward to it. is Is the tailgate going to get blessed with the OG recipe? Good question. Good question.
01:29:34
Speaker
Yeah, um we, we have been known to to show up on, uh, nor campus, uh, totally to be deaf. I don't know what to see. So what do people want, Jim? So here, here's the thing though. Uh, I have now have been, uh, I've got to figure out where Kim and I are doing our run on Saturday. Cause, uh, we don't have to go for a run for the rest of my life. Do you want my recommendation? Yeah. Was here.
01:29:58
Speaker
drive over to drive over to the Morris Hall area, find find a parking spot downtown super early in the morning. yeah I mean, ah when I did mine, I think it was like 5 a.m. or something like that. But yeah I know you probably don't want to get up that early, but that is a possibility. There's no there's nobody there. And it is a very unique experience um to run around an empty, like absolutely just dead, dead empty um parking situation on a game day. Yeah, the lights are on. The lights are usually on at least lights run one when I went at the stadium and just just run around campus. um i did ah I did a loop. I did a loop around around campus and it was it was great and I scheduled it I scheduled it so that I would end right around Morris Hall Tate
01:30:51
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situation. yeah And as I was running by a Tate, I i ran into Hugdog that was waiting in line was waiting in line for to set up. So you you may get you may get a preview and you could probably beat beat the guys the guys that are trying to wait for the parking to get their first the first crack at it. Okay, noted Kim is more that more of an early early riser than than I am. um But I will I will float the suggestion of what the suggestion although well based on what I said just said like, I'm the one that has to be convinced, but I don't know. So I'll check with her. I like the idea. We we did talk about that. Now that we're gonna do that. So we gotta figure that out. it's definitely a unique experience because you get the you get a big dichotomy not to mention the fact that it's just it's a lot cooler yeah well true true all right cool man good deal well like i've said this game should be later in the season but it is what it is
01:31:45
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ah homecoming Um, uh, never, you know, this is where we're at in college football, where we're playing Alabama and Auburn and back to back weeks and Auburn, home Auburn in this homecoming game, like so weird. Like what is going on? I'll take it though. I'll be, I'll be watching. I'll be watching. I may depending on what the weather looks like. I need to check it out and check that out. It's starting to get to starting to get to be drag the TV outside for, um, for a fire, um, situation. So.
01:32:12
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I'm really hoping that we can get there quickly because I'm kind of over this. Uh, I'm kind of over this heat. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Cool. Well, enjoy your home for young. Enjoy your home. Yeah. Yeah. You guys, you guys enjoy. I'll be, I'll be looking for, I'll be looking to live vicarious to Jim, including your, including your run at five am m if you go. Okay. So just, just just keep us posted and, uh, and go dogs. We'll do go dogs.